Hi >Strategically one of *JUMP weaknesses is the existence of so many forks. >For volunteers as well as for the commercial and the scientific guys >a common basis is needed. Till now most of the real development has been >done in the forks/flavors and ported back to OpenJUMP. I don't know >if this is the right way to go in the long term. You will attract more >people if OJ will get a dynamic of its own. I see potential here ... > > Completely agree with your analyse. And very pleased to see your help to reverse the tendency :-) . Concentrating on OpenJUMP is the only way to attract more users and more developpers, which will benefit every one.
Michaël >My 2 cents, >Sascha > >Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: > > >>Sascha, >> >>Please see my comments below. >> >>Sascha wrote: "I will suspend my further development on this stuff till >>the unstable/development branch comes into existence. >>I don't want to commit it to the stable branch, because there >>are questions to talk about, improving the GUI e.g. If >>several mime-types are available I don't think that it >>is a bright idea to select it by internal 'magic'." >> >>I e-mailed Stefan about the best place for an unstable branch of >>OpenJUMP's code base. When we have talked about it and made a decision >>I will report back to the list. If we don't create an unstable branch >>in the OpenJUMP CVS at the JPP SourceForge site then we will create >>one in the SVN repository at the SurveyOS SourceForge site. >> >>As soon as the decision has been made I will make the necessary >>changes and/or additions to the selected repository and will post the >>access information to this mailing list. >> >>You wrote: "Please let me, how and when I should proceed. I do >>this WMS stuff in my free time, so I have no time to >>waste it for things that went to the nirvana of >>cool but unpublished software. I've done to much of this >>in the past." >> >>I repsect this decision. Please give me a few days to get this taken >>care of, and then your work on WMS can proceed. We really appreciate >>any "volunteer" effort that is put in by the members of our community >>and I think you are already proving to be a valuable member of that >>community. (Anyone that can hold his own during a discussion of JUMP >>source code with Larry Becker has my vote.) :] >> >>The Sunburned Surveyor >> >> >>On 6/1/07, Sascha L. Teichmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Hi together, >>> >>>To give a little status report about my recent improvements >>>of the WMS layer stuff: >>> >>>- Introduction of a factory model that handles different >>> formats (mime-types) more clearly and abstract. >>> This helps to handle the result streams coming from >>> the HTTP responses. e.g images/svg+xml needs some XML parsing, >>> images/png can be processed by javax.imageio.ImageIO >>> >>>- Usage of javax.imageio.ImageIO in case of bitmap images. >>> If things like JAI ImageIO is installed a wider range >>> of bitmap types are supported. >>> >>>- Usage of the Apache Common's HttpClient [1]. >>> This enables better HTTP handling: persistent >>> connections, queueing, limiting number of connections >>> to servers, performing better with multiple Threads >>> (pooling) and so on. >>> It also enables us to use authentication, SSL, proxies. >>> This may be of interest when connecting to protected servers. >>> >>>I will suspend my further development on this stuff till >>>the unstable/development branch comes into existence. >>>I don't want to commit it to the stable branch, because there >>>are questions to talk about, improving the GUI e.g. If >>>several mime-types are available I don't think that it >>>is a bright idea to select it by internal 'magic'. >>> >>>Please let me, how and when I should proceed. I do >>>this WMS stuff in my free time, so I have no time to >>>waste it for things that went to the nirvana of >>>cool but unpublished software. I've done to much of this >>>in the past. >>> >>>Kind regards, >>>Sascha >>> >>>[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: >>> >>> >>>>Sascha, >>>> >>>>I agree with your comments. Let me talk to Stefan about this. I think >>>>creating a development branch of the CVS shouldn't be too much of a >>>>problem. I don't know a lot about CVS, but as long as it was fairly >>>>simple to move things from the unstable branch to the stable branch I >>>>think this would be a great idea. >>>> >>>>The Sunburned Surveyor >>>> >>>>On 5/29/07, Sascha L. Teichmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>SS, >>>>> >>>>>Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>[...] >>>>>>I think we would definitely be interested in having the ability to >>>>>>render WMS layers as from SVG instead of as an image in OpenJUMP. >>>>>>However, I think we might benefit from the creation of an "unstable" >>>>>>or development branch in the OpenJUMP CVS were we can commit these >>>>>>rather rapid changes. Stefan and I discussed this a little bit before, >>>>>>but never moved on it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>I _really_ would appreciate such a branch. Look at the concrete >>>>>WMS/SVG case. I've done it now. Where should I put it? To the >>>>>one and only stable branch? This not a good idea. Not because >>>>>it does not work, but it surely needs a final touch and some >>>>>discussions. At the moment there is no way in the WMS GUI panel >>>>>to choose the preferred MIME type of the WMS response. There >>>>>is some internal guessing about going on which in my eyes >>>>>needs more user interaction. >>>>>But we can't discuss this detail before we all aren't able to see >>>>>the concrete problem in form of a running program. >>>>>On the other hand I can work on a solution all by myself and >>>>>send a big patch after a while. This is not the community >>>>>way of doing software development... >>>>> >>>>>- Sascha >>>>> >>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>>>>Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>>>>control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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